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I read the whole thing online this afternoon, and it's remarkable. I could see it being taught in journalism classes years from now, like Gay Talese's "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" or John Hersey's "Hiroshima."<p>It takes something both very important and hard to understand, and makes it understandable …

Earlier this year we wrote about Atomic, a startup that’s building a browser-based tool for designing high quality, interactive prototypes of apps and websites.<p>The company’s public beta, which launches today, aims to get more designers onboard to understand how they use the tool and begin testing …

Pandora’s chief musicologist Nolan Gasser has made a career of tailor-fitting streams of music to listeners’ tastes.<p>Now, Gasser is taking the body of knowledge he gained as the architect of Pandora’s Music Genome Project and focusing it on helping ease the suffering of cancer patients.<p>The Music …

For years, digital marketers have been shackled to an increasingly outdated technology known as cookies, which are still used to measure and target digital ads.<p>Cookies — bits of code dropped into web browsers — are known to generate poor approximations of how many people view a digital ad, …

Fugazi have shared a stream of their first demo tape, which was recorded in 1988 at Inner Ear Studio after Fugazi had only played 10 shows. Now, 26 years later, you can stream <i>First Demo</i> in full, below.<p><i>First Demo</i> is out November 18 via Dischord. Check out the track list below.<p>The LP/CD/MP3 reissue …

Earlier this week, Parquet Courts followed up their recent, great album <i>Sunbathing Animal</i> with a new long-player titled <i>Content</i> <i>Nausea</i>, which they released under the name Parkay Quarts. Last night, the outfit appeared on French TV show "Le Grand Journal" to do the LP's title track. PC Worship's Justin …

<b>Editor’s note:</b> <i>Isabella Chiu is a sophomore at Harvard College studying linguistics and computer science.</i><p>We’ve all experienced the painful execution of conference calls with the uncomfortable dialing of codes, never-ending instructions and announcements when you join. There are two approaches to …

<b>Editor’s note:</b> <i>Jeff Markowitz joined Greylock as a partner in 2011 and focuses on managing executive talent relationships both in and outside of the portfolio.</i><p>In Part 1, my colleague Reid Hoffman said that recognizing that top talent may someday want to leave can lead to more honest conversations at …

As we march into the technological frontier, new possibilities for humanity are emerging — along with new questions<p>Now more than ever, the topic of death is marked by no shortage of diverging opinions.<p>On the one hand, there are serious thinkers — Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Michio Kaku, Marshall …

In this post-PRISM world, basically everyone is worried about privacy (and rightly so!) -- especially when it comes to cloud-based storage. Offloading your files to the likes of Dropbox doesn't come without a share of caveats regarding security, so that's where Places comes in. What sets the …

Automatic Labs and Ford Motors are announcing today a new partnership to bring the Automatic Link accessory to more people and add more functionality to the platform. Ford Motors and Automatic Labs will work together to develop features to both the Automatic platform and Ford Sync, the automaker’s …

<b>1. Black Bean, Corn & Avocado Salad with Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette</b><p>With black beans, sweet corn, crisp bell peppers and creamy avocado, this is one of those crowd-pleasing, make-ahead recipes that everyone loves. You can serve it as a side dish, salad or dip. The vinaigrette is similar to the …

Splice helps electronic dance music creators save, share, collaborate, and remix music by working alongside professional music creation tools like Ableton Live.<p>For one, Splice offers musicians access to all of their revisions in the cloud.<p>Let's say you made an awesome song using Ableton Live, but …

Todd Terje: It's Album Time<p>Next week dance fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated debut album from the self-dubbed "remaster of the universe," Todd Terje. The aptly titled LP, <i>It's Album Time</i>, arrives 10 years after the Norwegian DJ and producer dropped his first 12" …

Lotus has a new superbike called the C-01. Designed by Daniel Simon, whose work you'll know from <i>Tron: Legacy</i>, <i>Oblivion</i>, and <i>Captain America</i>, the bike balances the Lotus form of old with a decidedly modern finish.<p>Although Simon is better known for his concept work, and the C-01 certainly looks like a …